Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year
growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now
the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the
world. Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat,
You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld) as he watches Tokyo transform
during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes
face to face with the city’s dark underbelly, interviews
Japan’s baseball elite after publishing his first best-selling
book on the subject, and learns how politics and sports collide to
produce a cultural landscape unlike any other, even as a new
Olympics is postponed and the COVID virus ravages the nation. A
colorful social history of what Anthony Bourdain dubbed, “the
greatest city in the world,” Tokyo Junkie is a revealing account
by an accomplished journalist who witnessed it all firsthand and,
in the process, had his own dramatic personal transformation.
General
| Imprint: |
Stone Bridge Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
June 2021 |
| Authors: |
Robert Whiting
|
| Dimensions: |
223 x 139mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
384 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-61172-073-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-61172-073-7 |
| Barcode: |
9781611720730 |
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